Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There is, nevertheless, a widespread feeling that the University itself is neglecting those of its students who are genuinely interested in the drama. Although there are several excellent Comparative Literature courses dealing with the drama, such as Comparative Literature 4, which treats of Ibsen and the Modern Drama, and English 53, the English Drama from 1780-1890, it must be admitted that courses in Franch and American drama are at a premium. Nor is there, in the Department of Fine Arts, any instruction for those who may care to study the theory of stage design and lighting effects...
...Christian era, a chronicle which took those people through some of the most amazing adventures that you can read about in any literature, a chronicle occasionally incomplete--full of blind spots, times when the race seemed to be swallowed up like Jonah from the face of the earth--nevertheless this chronicle, this story, has had as much to do with shaping the course of world affairs for the last nineteen hundred years as any other single factor. And not only did the Jewish religion give birth to the Christian, but its contributions in its own right are a vital force...
...Nevertheless," he declared, "writing is a vigorous and exacting life work, and the man who decides to go into it has to have a strong interest in writing and besides that, perseverance...
Last week this untrustworthy monster was the hero of a rambling, repetitious memoir by her onetime commander. Filled with cranky asides about war, the British, the flu, spies, religion, written with a heavy-handed humor, Take Her Down nevertheless gives an entertaining picture of submarine life. While the L-9 was being towed with seven other U. S. submarines to the Azores, en route to the War zone, during a hurricane her towline parted; a fire extinguisher tore loose, sprayed the torpedo room with a white sticky froth; both magnetic and gyroscopic compasses were smashed, most of the crew were...
...League of Nations, his action will be seen as merely another maneuver aimed at improving Italy's bargaining position in the world. Although the implications of this action are great, it is not in itself a serious step. Italy has since May of last year been far from Geneva. Nevertheless, the breach between the "isms" and democracy has been widented, and the necessity of cooperation between the great democracies is more urgent than ever before...